Example sentences of "[conj] to their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moving on to the question of defenders stopping the try by not standing on the goal-line , Law 27(e) is clear about what the offending team must do : ‘ The opposing team must run without delay ( and continue to do so while the kick is being taken and while the ball is being played by the kicker 's team ) to or behind the line parallel to the goal-lines and 10 metres from the mark , or to their own goal-line if nearer to the mark . |
| 2 | The pragmatics of all these statements — the ways they are used to produce certain effects on the people to whom they are addressed — are thus tied to their propaganda value for particular campaigns or positions , or to their instrumental value in furthering the personal or political objectives of particular individuals or groups . |
| 3 | But they were busy and not paying attention except to their own work . |
| 4 | If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps . |
| 5 | As there was much greater divergence in growth levels between conurbations and rural sub-regions than between the 11 constituent regions of the UK , the statistical performance of the regions is better understood and predicted by reference to their respective mixtures of conurbation and rural sub-regions than to their industrial structure . |
| 6 | Both groups strongly identify with their professional bodies and tend to feel more allegiance to their profession than to their individual employer . |
| 7 | Writing from a similar perspective , Collins attributes the higher salaries of the more educated employees to the certification process rather than to their higher productivity , i.e. , the increasing tendency by employers to select and promote employees according to the education credentials they hold . |
| 8 | The downfall of Mr Perez and Mr Collor may in fact owe less to their corruption — real or imagined — than to their general unpopularity and especially that of their economic reforms . |
| 9 | The two girls were now paying much more attention to their new found friends than to their original escorts . |
| 10 | His eye measured these impressive heights coolly , relating them always to sea level rather than to their own grandeur , and correcting Boswell 's exultation over ‘ another mountain I called immense : Johnson : ‘ No ; it is no more than a considerable protuberance . ’ ’ |
| 11 | The assumption here is that if inheritance is a factor then adopted children should be more similar , in their criminality , to their biological than to their adopting parents . |
| 12 | The fact that so many do publish , as evidenced by the numbers of papers in the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists , or Geophysical Prospecting , indicates the close ties between their current work , and the need to advance their careers by publishing papers related to that work , rather than to their previous research . |
| 13 | The fact that so many do publish , as evidenced by the numbers of papers in the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists , or Geophysical Prospecting , indicates the close ties between their current work , and the need to advance their careers by publishing papers related to that work , rather than to their previous research . |
| 14 | The Communist Party now contains an extraordinary range of opinion , from old believers to reformers who are closer in outlook to middle-of-the-road democrats than to their hardline comrades . |
| 15 | The sign on his door saying ‘ Do not disturb — meditating ’ is like a red flag to a Young Conservative to her and to their three-year-old son . |
| 16 | As the children complete their Primary School education it is important for us to look to the continuity of their education into the Senior School , particularly in relation to the 5–14 Programme and to their personal adjustment . |
| 17 | The employment reserve of which I spoke would help them to contribute to society and to their personal future and well-being . |
| 18 | But their earliest important memorials gave priority to honouring the dead and to their religious practices . |
| 19 | ‘ Major areas ’ , says the report , ‘ refers to broad disciplines of science ( such as biology , physics , mathematics , chemistry , earth sciences , and astronomy ) and to their major subdisciplines ( such as the neurosciences , condensed-matter physics , and seismology ) ’ . |
| 20 | By the high-priestly families of Jerusalem he was felt to be a threat both to their authority and to their political collaboration with the Roman power . |
| 21 | The extent to which fans will carve out careers for themselves on the terraces will , to a large extent , reflect their commitment to the soccer culture and to their immediate peer group . |
| 22 | New Zealand 's dairy and meat farmers have become the cheapest producers in the OECD , thanks to their country 's mild climate and to their average herd size of 160 cows , compared with the EC 's less-efficient average of only 20 cows . |
| 23 | They have , no doubt , been adapting themselves to their new home , to a different country and to their new school . |
| 24 | As the fellows told the King in September 1687 , " the Electing the Bishop of Oxford " was " directly contrary to their statutes , and to their positive oaths " , and although " they were as ready to obey the K. in all things that lay in their power " , they " could not apprehend it in their power to obey him in this matter " . |
| 25 | It plays with Godard 's Une Femme est une Femme , made the following year , both graceful and romantic tributes to the MGM musical comedy , and to their vibrant stars , Anouk Amiee and Anna Karina . |
| 26 | It plays with Godard 's Une Femme est une Femme , made the following year , both graceful and romantic tributes to the MGM musical comedy , and to their vibrant stars , Anouk Amiee and Anna Karina . |
| 27 | What concerns us is not so much a detailed account of the politics which led to the passing of the acts and to their eventual repeal in the 1880s . |
| 28 | There is plenty of resistance both to the American investment banks and to their book-building technique . |
| 29 | Also many teachers of English succumbed to a kind of vitalism , a muddled belief that children 's acquisition of language skills depends not on craft and knowledge , but upon a living , spontaneous response to their reading and to their own experiences . |
| 30 | But this market was new to them and to their own investors and trustees . |